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Dougie Donnelly

Dougie Donnelly is one of BBC Sports top television presenters and is regularly seen fronting a variety of network sport productions,including Britain's premier sport programme 'GRANDSTAND'. He was the commentator on the Curling at the Winter olympics and covered the dramatic moments when Great Britain won the Gold medal.

Golf has featured heavily in Dougie's schedule since the year 2000, interviewing all the Worlds top players including Tiger Woods, Nick Price, Colin Montgomery, Seve Ballesteros And Greg Norman at The Masters, The Volvo PGA, The Loch Lomond World Invitational Tournament, The Open, The World Match Play. The Ryder Cup was added to these tournaments in 1999. As in previous years Dougie will present all BBC coverage of snooker and bowls, including World Championship events, he has fronted these sports since 1993.

1998 was a huge year of sport on the BBC with Dougie involved in presentation of the three major events during the year, The Winter Olympics from Nagano Japan, The World Cup from France and The Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpa.

Dougie is the main presenter and anchor man of BBC Scotland's sport output, a position held since 1980, fronting 'Sportscene' (BBC Scotland's opt out from 'Match of the Day' and 'Sportsnight') with its main sports of football and rugby. He has also produced, written and presented a variety of sell through videos for sporting personalities including Gavin Hastings and Ally McCoist.

In 1997 Dougie fronted the BBC's presentation of The World Curling Championship from Switzerland and in 1996 he was involved in the main sporting events seen on the BBC, presenting The European Football Championships from England in June, The Open Championship from Royal Lytham & St Anne's in July and, following The Open, joining the BBC team in Atlanta for the Olympic Games.

In 1992 Dougie presented and reported with the award winning BBC Network team at the Olympic Games in Barcelona and the European Championships from Sweden.

While Dougie has established himself as a sports presenter his skills as a chat show host were much praised when he fronted two series of 'Friday Night with Dougie Donnelly' and a one off television special with Billy Connolly, 'Connolly with Donnelly' both for BBC Scotland. From 1979 to 1992 he presented Radio Clyde's mid-morning show, the station's most listened to midweek programme, leaving to concentrate on television presentation.

Dougie is also at home presenting promotional events, sales conferences and corporate videos and is in constant demand for after dinner speaking. Among the companies that have engaged Dougie are CGU, Scottish Sports Council, Ford Motor Co, Distillers Plc, Barratt Homes, ScottishPower, Pannell Kerr Forster, British Midlands, Bank of Scotland, BAA to name a few. Away from broadcasting Dougie remains a sport enthusiast and is a keen golfer.

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